Another Smirching of the Church

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 16, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 36.

Another Smirching of the Church.

We have on our table a handbill of a minstrel show to be given by the ladies of a Presbyterian Church on the 17th of last month. “All the latest Negro melodies, funny gags, jokes, amusing dialogues. Twenty ladies in burnt cork. Music by the best home talent.”

This has been paralleled by Methodists and Baptists. Is there any reason to believe that Christians who will lend themselves to such work in the name of the church have any genuine experience in the guidance of the Holy Spirit?—Christian Advocate (Methodist).